Lesson Four – Slide Backgrounds
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explain and model how to format and configure a range of different backgrounds that can be used on slides in a multimedia presentation about life in Ancient Egypt.
The class can identify effective combinations of font and background colours so that the slide is easy to read and interpret for the viewer to use.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to format and configure a range of different backgrounds that can be used on slides in a multimedia presentation about life in Ancient Egypt
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the most effective ways of presenting information on a multimedia slide and a shared reading text to practise changing the colour of a range of different backgrounds to the slides in a multimedia presentation so that they are easy to read and interpret.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to configure a range of different backgrounds to use on the slides in a multimedia presentation.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to select and combine different forms of graphic and text media to create a multimedia presentation describing an aspect of life in Ancient Egypt. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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